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Title:
"'You will think them poor baby stories to make such a talk about': Prose Adaptations for Children of Shakespeare's Venetian Plays"
Author:
Tosi, Laura.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

"Analyzes Charles Lamb's retellings of Othello and Mary Lamb's of Merchant of Venice as exemplifications of their adapting practices, which paved the way for later adaptations from the nineteenth century to the present day."

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"'Buried in the open fields': Early Modern Suicide and the Case of Ofelia"
Author:
Clare, Janet.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Early Modern Studies 2 (2013): 241–52. (http://www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems)
Annotation:

Analyzes the representation of Ophelia's suicide in the First and Second Quarto texts of Hamlet, drawing connections between the depictions of Ophelia's death and early modern popular, legal, and theological responses to suicide. English summary, 241.

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"The Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2013"
Author:
Heron, Jonathan; Johnson, Nicholas.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Beckett Studies 23, no. 1 (2013): 73–94.
Annotation:

In describing the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, the results of its 2013 experiments, and "what some wider implications might be for Beckett Studies and its relationship to practice-based research," analyzes the intertextual relationship between "Shakespeare/Bare Room" manuscript and Sonnet 71.

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"Regards croisés sur Macbeth: Françoise Chatôt et Jean-Michel Déprats"
Author:
Chiari, Sophie.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Transcribes a dialogue between director Françoise Chatôt and Jean-Michel Déprats regarding the translation, interpretation, and staging of Macbeth.

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Title:
"Ramon Esquerra, comparatista català d'entreguerres"
Author:
Molla, Guillem.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 19, no. 2 (2013): 139–57.
Annotation:

Discusses the writings of Catalan literary critic Ramon Esquerra i Clivillés, including his essay "Shakespeare a Catalunya" (1935). Catalan summary, 139.

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Title:
"William Shakespeare"
Author:
Hadfield, Andrew; Kenny, Amy.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Oxford Bibliographies: British and Irish Literature. (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 2013. (http://tinyurl.com/k7mfhan.)
Annotation:

Provides a brief introduction to and biography of William Shakespeare alongside a bibliography of biographical studies, reference works, and journals.

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Title:
"'But I do it more naturally': Falstaff's 'Original Clowning Practice' vs. Theatrical Naturalism"
Author:
Hornback, Robert.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2014
Annotation:

"Invite[s] considerations of what we might call 'original clowning practices' by examining some of the early performance conventions and traditions employed by Elizabethan stage clowns." Contrasts Renaissance English clown practices with "modern theatrical 'method' that too often works against the dynamics of original clowning practice." Argues that Falstaff in 1 Henry IV represents the "grotesque satirical description of the clown" and "explore[s] how this exemplary part can be studied for its encryption of original methods and modes of clowning."

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Title:
"English in The Tempest: The Value of Metaphor and Re-Imagining Grammar in English"
Author:
Macken-Horarik, Mary.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
English in Australia 48, no. 3 (2013): 46–53.
Annotation:

"Explore[s] the potential of metaphor for thinking in new ways about the relationship of grammar to key issues facing school English." "Makes use of an old association between the word 'grammar' and the practice of magic" by "drawing on key figures in Shakespeare's play The Tempest." Argues that "if teachers in English can learn to re-imagine grammar as a source of magic in the work of English, they will be in a far better position to take up its available resources."

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